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Commanding officer of British, American and French army plan for the drive on Rome, Italy during World War II.

Allied drive towards Rome after the capture of Monte Casino during the end of World War II. Ruins of Cassino crushed by Allied war machines. Artillery shelled walls of Monte Cassino. Enemy mines and booby traps. Commanding officer of British, American and French army including British Army Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark and Juin et al plan for the drive on Rome. Army tanks drive. Smoke rises. German prisoners are being taken.

Date: 1944, May
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071261
Japanese Naval guns and aircraft attack British targets in Indian Ocean and environs, in World War II

Animated map shows Indian Ocean,with Bay of Bengal; Ceylon; India and cities of Madras and Calcutta; and Burma and city of Rangoon. Two Japanese aircraft carriers are seen in waters off Rangoon, during World War 2. Officers aboard looking through binoculars. Antiaircraft guns on one of the carriers. A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M (zero/Zeke) airplane is readied and takes off from the carrier, followed by another. Several are seen flying in formation over the city of Rangoon. Sounds of explosions and smoke rising, as the Japanese bomb the city. Black smoke from exploding flak is also seen. Scene shifts to a Japanese warship firing 5.5 inch guns at a British ship which is hit by shellfire. The ship explodes emitting dense white smoke, and sinks from sight. Three A6M Zeros fly overhead. Aerial view of a British ship being bombed, and burning.

Date: 1941, December 28
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675071424
A British official presents a hat, a stick and a panther's skin to a new chief as swearing-in ceremonies take place in Rhodesia.

Swearing-in ceremonies of a new chief of the Giuto tribe which is the largest in Rhodesia. A British official presents a hat and a stick to the new 70 year old chief. Military troops march. A panther skin is presented to the new chief. British flag waves over the cermony. Spectataors watch the ceremonies. Officials stroke the beard of the chief as a part of their custom.

Date: 1967, April 11
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071758
British Wartime General Election gives control to the Labor party in 1945

Opening slate of this film reads" Churchill Defeated." It goes on to show Winston Churchill attending his last meeting with wartime allied leaders at Podsdam, Germany in July, 1945. He shakes hands with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. His replacement, Clement Attlee who is also there. View from above of Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin greeting the new British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, who is accompanied by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. President Harry Truman, accompanied by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. The wartime leaders gather around a large round table. Closeup of Marshal Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Closeup of U.S. President Harry S. Truman at the conference table. View from above of the principals at the table. Film shifts to scenes of Major Attlee campaigning for votes. People in street listening to Ernest Bevin campaigning. Views of Winston Churchill being given a hearty farewell by a crowd, as he rides through on an open vehicle. Closeups of him he picks up a microphone to address the throng. Scene shifts to views of British voters casting their ballots. King George VI strolls with new Prime Minister Attlee and Winston Churchill. He poses with the new Prime Minister (Attlee) and Ernest Bevin on his right. At his left is Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. Closeups of Clement Attlee.

Date: 1945, July 26
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072722
U.S. President Truman and British Leader Winston Churchill arrive by train in Fulton, Missouri and travel to Westminster College

U.S. President Truman and British Leader Winston Churchill arrive in Fulton, Missouri. President Truman and Winston Leonard Churchill step down from the President's railroad train car. Photographers take pictures. Truman and Churchill get in to a car and travel the streets in a motorcade. Large crowd of spectators gathered on either side of the street, holding American and British flags. President Truman waves his hat and greets the onlookers. President Truman waves his hat and Winston Churchill smokes a cigar, as they stand on steps of Westminster College building.

Date: 1946, March 5
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072965
British Opposition Leader Winston Churchill receives an honorary degree at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

Iron Curtain speech by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. President of the United States Harry S Truman introduces Winston Leonard Churchill. The large crowd gathered at the Westminster College hall, applaud. British Leader Churchill at podium addresses the gathering. President Truman and officers seated on a platform behind the speaker. Churchill speaks about the relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States. He speaks about the establishment of Communist fifth columns. President Truman and Winston Churchill both receive honorary degrees.

Date: 1946, March 5
Duration: 5 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072966